Megan Rapinoe

Megan Rapinoe est une des athletes les plus marquantes de la scene sportive mondiale. En parallele de son succes professionnel sur les terrains de foot, elle est aussi devenue une icone et un modele pour des millions de personnes en sexprimant avec courage sur les enjeux societaux les plus importants.Elevee dans une petite ville conservatrice du nord de la Californie, benjamine dune fratrie de six enfants, Megan Rapinoe a quatre ans lorsquelle tape dans son premier ballon. Son talent pour ce sport est une evidence. Si ses parents encouragent son amour pour le foot, ils lincitent egalement a sengager aupres des plus demunis.Son enfance, aux cotes de sa sur jumelle adoree Rachael, est marquee par la tragique addiction a la drogue de son frere Brian. Militante dans lame, elle est la premiere joueuse de football a faire son coming-out dans les medias en 2012, puis en 2016, elle nhesite pas a sagenouiller pendant lhymne nationale en soutien au joueur Colin Kaepernick, parti en guerre contre les discriminations raciales et les violences policieres. Son refus public et categorique de se rendre a la Maison Blanche apres la victoire a la Coupe du monde 2019 a fait couler beaucoup dencre, tout comme laction en justice quelle a intentee avec ses coequipieres contre la federation americaine de football pour obtenir une remuneration egale a celle de lequipe masculine. Ferocement anti-Trump, elle a apporte son soutien a Joe Biden dans la course a la Maison Blanche.Comme elle la declare apres la victoire au mondial de lequipe americaine a New York en 2019 : Cest notre responsabilite de rendre le monde meilleur. Traduit de langlais (Etats-Unis) par Marguerite Capelle et Helene Cohen

Adapted for young readers! Join two-time Womens World Cup champion, Olympic gold medalist, and trailblazing activist Megan Rapinoe in the fight for equality and justice in this middle grade adaptation of her New York Times bestselling memoir, One Life. You know Megan Rapinoe as an international soccer superstar! Shes also a fierce activist, boldly speaking out about issues of equality and justicefrom LGBTQ rights to the equal pay movement to Black Lives Matter. In this adaptation for middle school readers of her memoir One Life, get to know Megan: from her childhood in a small California town where she learned to play soccer and how to fight for social justice; through high school, college and beyond; to 2016 when she became the first high-profile white athlete to take a knee in support of Colin Kaepernik, and also suing the United States Soccer Federation along with her teammates over gender discrimination. Using stories from her own life and career, Rapinoe discusses the responsibility we have to speak up. In this edition specifically for young readers, she reveals the impact everyone, even kids, can have on their communities and how kids can get involved in making the world a better place.

An instant New York Times bestseller!Rapinoes signature pose from the 2019 FIFA Womens World Cup is synonymous to the feeling we got when finishing this book: heart full, arms wide and ready to take up space in this world.USA Today Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist and two-time Womens World Cup champion, reveals for the first time her life both on and off the field. Guided by her personal journey into social justice, brimming with humor, humanity, and joy, she urges all of us to ask ourselves, What will you do with your one life? Only four years old when she kicked her first soccer ball, Megan Rapinoe developed a love and clear talent for the game at a young age. But it was her parents who taught her that winning was much less important than how she lived her life. From childhood on, Rapinoe always did what she could to stand up for what was righteven if it meant going up against people who disagreed. In One Life, Megan Rapinoe invites readers on a remarkable journey, looking back on both her victories and her failures, and pulls back the curtain on events we know only from the headlines. After the 2011 World Cup, discouraged by how few athletes were open about their sexuality, Rapinoe decided to come out publicly as gay and use her platform to advocate for marriage equality. Recognizing the power she had to bring attention to critical issues, in 2016 she took a knee during the national anthem in solidarity with former NFL player Colin Kaepernick to protest racial injustice and police brutalitythe first high-profile white athlete to do so. The backlash was immediate, but it couldnt compare to the overwhelming support. Rapinoe became a force of change. Here for the first time, Rapinoe reflects upon some of the most pivotal moments in her life and career from her realization in college that she was gay, through the disputes with soccer coaches and officials over her decision to kneel, to the first time she met her now-fiance WNBA champion Sue Bird, and up through suing the US Soccer Federation over gender discrimination and equal pay. Throughout, Rapinoe makes clear the obligation we all have to speak up, and the impact each of us can have on our communities. Deeply personal and inspiring, One Life reveals that real, concrete change lies within all of us, and asks: If we all have the same resourcethis one precious life, made up of the decisions we make every daywhat are you going to do? "One Life makes it clear that Rapinoes greatest accomplishments may ultimately come away from the soccer pitch. Shes a new kind of American hero."San Francisco Chronicle

Megan Rapinoe, ganadora de una medalla de oro olímpica y dos veces campeona de la Copa Mundial Femenina, se ha convertido en una fuerza impulsora del cambio social. En este libro, nos pide a todos nosotros que tomemos el relevo para continuar la lucha por la justicia y la igualdad. Profundamente personal e inspirador, One Life revela que el cambio real y concreto esta dentro de todos nosotros, y por ello nos lanza una pregunta:Todos contamos con el mismo recurso, esta vida tan preciada, conformada por las decisiones que tomamos a diario... Asi que, ¿que vas a hacer tu?Una memoria inspiradora que emocionara a los fanaticos del futbol y a los activistas por la justicia social.KIRKUSOne Life deja claro que los mayores logros de Rapinoe puede que esten fuera del campo de futbol. Es un nuevo tipo de heroina americana.SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEEs la combinacion de importantes logros deportivos y el activismo iconoclasta por la justicia social lo que hace a Rapinoe unica como atleta y ahora como autora.OUT SPORTSMegan Rapinoe no esta rompiendo el techo de cristal, lo esta destrozando, y todo ello mientras comparte su espacio con los que estan al margen.PATRISSE KHAN-CULLORS, COFUNDADORA DE BLACK LIVES MATTERUn manifiesto de como tener un corazon que late mientras se es una bestia en el campo.NATALIE PORTMAN

Megan Rapinoe, ganadora de una medalla de oro olímpica y dos veces campeona de la Copa Mundial Femenina, se ha convertido en una fuerza impulsora del cambio social. En este libro nos pide a todos nosotros que tomemos el relevo para continuar la lucha por la justicia y la igualdad. Criada en un pequeño pueblo conservador del norte de California, y siendo la menor de seis hermanos, Megan tenia solo cuatro años cuando chuto su primer balon de futbol. Sus padres apoyaron su amor por el juego, pero le enseñaron que ganar era mucho menos importante que decidir como iba a vivir su vida. Desde su infancia, Rapinoe siempre hizo lo que pudo para defender lo que era correcto, incluso si eso significaba enfrentarse a personas que no estaban de acuerdo. En One Life, Rapinoe reflexiona sobre sus elecciones, victorias y fracasos, y se embarca en un debate reflexivo y sincero sobre su viaje personal hacia la justicia social. Despues de la Copa Mundial de 2011, desanimada por el escaso numero de deportistas dispuestos a hablar de su sexualidad, Rapinoe decidio reconocerse publicamente como lesbiana y utilizar su plataforma para defender la igualdad en el matrimonio. Al darse cuenta del poder que tenia para llamar la atencion sobre temas criticos, en 2016 se arrodillo durante el himno nacional en so...